Navigating the Breakdown

Navigating the Breakdown

The breakdown overview is a tab-based view of your production’s scenes, characters, elements, and locations. It gives you a bird’s-eye view of breakdown progress and is the jumping-off point for AI breakdown, scene editing, and bulk actions.

Prerequisites

• You need at least one uploaded script with parsed scenes.

The Four Tabs

At the top of the breakdown screen, four tabs let you switch between views:

1. Breakdowns (default) — Scenes in a table, one row per scene.
2. Characters — All named characters in the script.
3. Elements — Every element across the project, grouped by type.
4. Locations — Every location used across the script.

Breakdowns Tab (Scenes Table)

Table Columns

Each scene row shows:

Search

Use the search bar at the top to filter scenes by scene number, location, or time of day. Results update as you type.

Selecting Scenes

Click the checkbox on individual rows to select scenes, or use the header checkbox to select all. Selected scenes enable Element Breakdown, the AI Tools dropdown, and the Bulk Actions menu (see below).

Opening Scene Detail

Click a scene row, or select Edit from the overflow menu, to open the scene detail view. This takes you to the two-panel layout where you can work on the scene’s elements and crew.

Element Breakdown

The header has a primary Element Breakdown button that runs AI element detection on the selected scenes. When scenes are selected the button shows the count, e.g. Element Breakdown (3). While a job is running the button is replaced by a Cancel button.

When pending split suggestions exist, a blue banner appears below the header letting you review them.

AI Tools

The AI Tools dropdown provides:

• Synopsis Generation — Generates summaries for selected scenes.
• Estimate Timings — Estimates screen and shooting time for selected scenes.

Both actions require at least one selected scene.

Bulk Actions

When scenes are selected, a Bulk Actions menu appears with:

• Bulk Edit Scene Numbers — Renumber selected scenes (admin only).
• Bulk Edit — Edit fields across multiple scenes at once.
• Copy Breakdowns — Copy element assignments from another revision into the selected scenes.
• Import timings (CSV) — Bulk-import scene durations from a spreadsheet (admin only).
• Hide / Unhide Selected — Flip the hidden flag on the selected scenes.
• Delete — Delete the selected scenes (a confirmation dialog appears first).

Toolbar Controls

• Scene order / Shooting order toggle — Switch between script order and shooting order.
• Density toggle — Switch between compact and comfortable row heights.
• Configure — Open Breakdown Settings (admin only).
• Refresh — Reload scenes.
• Export — Coming soon.

Characters Tab

The Characters tab shows all named characters in the script. Use the search bar at the top to filter by name. Click a character to open its detail panel.

Elements Tab

The Elements tab shows all elements in your project, organized by type.

Category Sidebar

A sidebar on the left lists all element types (Characters, Props, Wardrobe, etc.) with a count badge showing how many elements exist in each category. Click a type to filter the table. Select All Types to see everything.

Elements Table

The filtered table shows:

Locations Tab

The Locations tab shows every location used across the script. Use the search bar to filter by name. Click a location to open its detail panel.

Tips

• Use the search bar to quickly find a specific scene by location (e.g., “OFFICE” or “NIGHT”).
• The element count badges on each scene row are color-coded by type, giving you a quick visual sense of what each scene requires.
• Select multiple scenes before running Element Breakdown to process them in a batch.
• The Characters and Locations tabs are read-mostly views — most editing still happens in scene detail.

Related

• Scene detail
• Working with elements
• Element types